College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

To Adapt, To Survive ; By the Two We Thrive

Where is it you have chosen to live and how have you subsequently adapted to survive?

I recently moved across the United States.
From East Coast, to West Coast
From privilege, to hardship.
And .any other things.

It has been difficult, to say the least.
All my old habits became a Death Warrant.
Leading to a need for immediate change.

In the Darkness, and not wanting to be Alone, I return to the question...

Where do you live ? How have you adapted, what habits do you find your self taking on?
How do you see these as an expression of your Will?
A Magickal Act.

The thought has occurred to me regarding magical squares in a general sense.

I intend to experiment a bit in a month or so.

Possibly starting with Enochian tablets.

If you want to work on the Abremelin, we can compare notes

Where does it come from ?
Experience, transmuted to matter
(becoming wrinkles in the brain)
that, eventually, having formed enough connections...
Wa la!
We have ourselves a "Mind."
Or would THAT be the Ego ?

Better yet, one might say
"It is crafted by our Angels"
Though I would appreciate further commentary

Mmm..
I see a distinct vision of an orb 'consciousness' wrapped about by a gossamer web

@Heg said

"Thank you Uni_Verse. I'll try not to build a high expectation but my curiosity is already at the peak of Himalayan Mountains. 93. "

Ah ~ ha !
I stands, a bulwark
against my exuberance
with a command :
"NO SPOILERS!"

(psst… between Me & You, enjoy ! )

@Hermitas said

"I learned that you get "psychically" linked to an argument and its voices."

Mystically speaking I would say such links should be severed.
"Buddhist non-attachment"
Magickally they can be a useful tool.
"Thelemic de-attachment"

Where- in the Mind of the Magician
Tens, Hundreds, Thousands - iterations may occur
In the passing of a 'mortal second'

@Heg said

"I learned that knowledge, understanding and wisdom are sephirots in kabbalistic tree of life but I can't quite get my head around it. I know that is an important concept but that's it, i don't know what to do with that knowledge."

BE-WARE!
Knowledge is " not quite the Sephirot "

To expand on an earlier comment, you can conceptualize Knowledge as a portal.
With Understanding & Wisdom coming from the experience of crossing the threshold, and discovering what is on the other side.

@Heg said

"It feels like something big is coming but I don't know what it is. "

Try to relax, allowing the sensation to flow through.
Avoid building expectations.
The taller the Tower, the higher the probability of being struck by Lighting

Good lucky !

EDIT : Words continue to be eaten, now in real time !

I my self got a little triggered when my sincerity was questioned...
When I was younger I was quite the internet troll
I still, often, am labeled a Troll on "Social Media"
However on this Forum, and other such places that discuss similar topics
I have taken great pains to be sincere and avoid being antagonistic.

@Hermitas said

"Goodness, I’ve been away. I didn’t know we were to the proposals already."

A straight line , being infinite, can never be traversed.
Following brings you "Closer" or "Farther"
Yet never reaching, T(w)o

Thus:
We Zig, We Zag
Leap & Laugh !

@Hermitas said

"It certainly seems to hurt, and that’s probably more relevant than whether or not it’s “real.”"

I would think so. In my experience it tends to represent resistance.
It can be an indication of a reaction to the words based on passed experiences,
or a 'Truth' you do not wish to see, so you distract yourself, quite easily....

To be clear I shared my "search findings" because I felt the "image was really freaking cool."
Any pain or hurt was unintentional; rather than fight, and grow apart:
With an injection of MAGICK into MYSTICISM
Let us transmute it into LOVE & LIGHT !

One thing, I think, to be clear:
I offer no guarantees ; only, possibilities
I am a RUNNER,
My Fathers Sun

O!
HA ! HA!
Do you want to get married?
Say
"Yes," aloud, to
U N I V E R S E
and one day we might meet,
I will whisper something into your ear
We will make LOVE
And in the fire of our passion,
WE shall become as ashes
Carried by the Wind

TIME ! TIME ! TIME !
I barely have the time to abstract a billion years of experience...
A Single Night of Fiery Truth -
Yet you expect prose ?
OH THAT BIG ASS & NOSE

Me is but the scribe for the I who dictates the "one verse."

There is a DIFFERENCE,
If you do not confound the space-marks.

Of course, you would not know
Since you are not Me,
So let me tell You:

I have been TRYING to compose prose -
Yet when I take the time to write as such
I get logged out.
Being lazy, I log back in.
Give you the CLIFF NOTES

Yeah, yeah, yeah
"I KNOW"
I should have learned by now
THINGS, take me a while
Then I bring them into my heart
For all the UNIVERSE
to experience

REALLY, HONESTLY, TRUELY :
If I could give these Reponses
AS I WILL -
THEY, would be SONGS
I sing to you...

pew pew pew
I shoot You
With my "Heart Cannon"
u ded
I kill you

@Heg said

"Although I have gained a lot by increasing my knowledge, I still feel myself extremely illiterate about the Great Work. "

Knowledge is the Gate, the Seed of Initiation.
The Great Work, can be said, to be :
Process of transmuting that Knowledge,
Into Understanding & Wisdom
through Experience

@Heg said

"So is there anyone among you that doesn't follow any specific school of teaching and practicing rituals and yoga only by the books you have read?"

That is how I started.
I go : In & Out ; Breathing
I-SO-(E)LATION!
Followed by -restriction-
grr...

@Heg said

"I am getting more excited more than ever now that only 3 books left in the reading list. How dramatic was the change in your spiritual growth when you were initiated?"

It can be many things - can you explain to me how it feels to kiss, to hug, to touch those you hold most dear ?
That is something I could never really know -
I like to think I understand, if just a little
Maybe it will be a FART -
You let it go, with flushed cheeks, a moment of embarrassment
Or a sly smile - a test of Kings
You could also hold it in.
Let it poison you.
Tell them : MINE
YOU CAN NOT HAVE IT

@seekinghga said

"So it seems you've moved from nonsense to outright lying? "

This honestly bothered me...
Like... Really ?
If after 10 years you still doubt my sincerity,
You have been reading all my posts with a blind-fold.

If this was just about YOU,
I would not have bothered responding.

It is about the experience of each individual who reads them.
My poems, as I see it, are gifts from the Uni Verse
Through Me,
Offering my love and affection to whomever may stumble upon them.

I am not such a fool to believe I could absolve people of their suffering...
Well, maybe... just a little

Voices ! Lights ! Sounds !
So MANY - now, and to come.
The 'Mystic' ignores them,
As should the Magician;
Heeding only those whom come
at the appointed hour

I think we are all ready doing that.

As part and parcel to Nuit,
THAT which has been divided,
Naturally flows back to the source.

0 becomes 1,
a single verse becomes many;
Each beckoned, two
spin , turn, face
"The Sun"
Praise IT, Tell IT
What has been done !

@seekinghga said

" Whereas I can say what I want to say in very concise and very clear language that anyone of average intelligence with an above-average vocabulary can comprehend."

You go ahead and keep doing what you WANT,
I shall continue to do my WILL

I thought it amusing, that originally your response included the term "reph"
Confused, I was lead to an image and the following article :

www.theringer.com/2018/12/12/18137221/far-right-occult-symbol

I have not read the article, though I plan to.

NOTE: I did not realize part of your post was cut off until I was in the middle of responding. I am just going to leave this here and create a separate post.

@seekinghga said

"What's your issue? It's simply a brief explanation of dharana and dhyana."

Oh, I have MORE than one , and one, and one....
Limiting my self to one, for the moment, it would be the "run-on" nature of the sentence.
I feel it touches those things, but does not explain them well.
With the added context and further thought it could be a matter of stylistic choices....

I find that by taking the perspective we are dealing with Feminine/Masculine principles,
rather than a Male/Female manifestation thereof resolves the conflict.

Perhaps the flesh bits dangling , or not, between legs allows a person to resonate better with certain principles,
In a ritual context the image presented could be said to supersede the identify of the individual.

So, a "male human" might provide a better costume for the role, but, in a sense, you should be "ignoring the *body" in a ritual context.

*EDIT: changed tense of a word, and person to body